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{{quote|''"From the number of cannibal village chiefs with Oxford or Harvard degrees, I'd say someone better investigate what they teach in law school"''.|'''Recon 5'''}}
[[Trope Namer|Named for]] a line spoken by North Korean villain Colonel Moon in the [[James Bond (
Also frequent is a comment to the effect that while they gained skills from this education, something they experienced added to their revulsion for the West, whether it was unpleasant aspects of Western culture in general or the fact that the Westerners were racist toward the character (the latter is especially common in works taking place in time periods when racism was still acceptable).
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Subverted in the Keith Giffen era of the ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League]]''. The noble savages of Kooey Kooey Kooey send a promising son to the mainland to learn at
▲* Subverted in the Keith Giffen era of the Justice League. The noble savages of Kooey Kooey Kooey send a promising son to the mainland to learn at Oxford -- because they want to modernize the island. They embrace Western Culture as soon as possible.
* Lawrence in the [[The Flash|Rogues']] "New Year's Evil" story is the demon-summoning nephew of a modern-day Asian warlord and has an Oxford education.
== [[Film]] ==
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
{{quote|
▲* ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]]'': The aforementioned [[Trope Namer]].
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and
▲{{quote| '''Colonel Moon''': I know all about the UN. I studied at Oxford and Harvard. ''Majored in Western hypocrisy''.}}
* ''[[Night
▲* In ''[[Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom]]''. Chattar Lal, prime minister to the Maharaja of Pankot, attended Oxford.
▲* ''[[Night At the Museum]]'' : The [[Mummy]], though, of course, he couldn't have actually studied there -- instead, his knowledge comes from being kept at the Cambridge Egyptology department.
* In ''The Mask of Fu Manchu'', it is mentioned that [[Fu Manchu]] has a doctorate of philosophy from Edinburgh, a doctorate in law from Christ's College, and a doctorate in medicine from Harvard.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* [[James Bond]] series:▼
▲== Literature ==
▲* [[James Bond]] series
▲** Julius Gorner from ''[[Literature/Devil May Care|Devil May Care]]''.
** Kamran Shah from ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' and Tiger Tanaka from ''[[You Only Live Twice]]''.
* [[Fu Manchu]] is one of the earliest examples.
* [[Axis of Time]]: The monstrous Hideki.
* ''[[
* ''Flashman and the Tiger'': [[Flashman]] encounters the son of a [[The Prisoner of Zenda|Rupert of Hentzau]] [[Expy]] who describes public schools as having conditions worse than Siberia but helping to toughen him up to take on Englishmen; also, there is a character in Flashman's Lady who is an English-educated Barbary pirate.
* ''Babar'' may be a colonial allegory, with the Elephant King representing Western-educated leaders are looked upon favorably by European powers (in this case France).
* [[Evelyn Waugh]]'s novel ''Black Mischief'' has the Emperor Seth of the fictional African country Azania, who includes among his numerous titles a bachelor of arts degree at Oxford. The character is an interesting combination of [[Strawman Political|strawman liberal]], [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] and [[Tragic Hero]].
* Frederick Forsyth's novel ''The Dogs of War'' is kind of on the [[Unfortunate Implications]] side, as there is an [[Oxbridge]] educated African leader who is one of the few honorable African characters in the book, with both sides of a civil war being portrayed as a bunch of savages. He represents a [[Take a Third Option|third group of people]] and {{spoiler|eventually takes power, allowing for a somewhat optimistic ending.}}
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' by [[Jules Verne]]: Captain Nemo; whether a Pole or Indian Prince, he is definitely steeped in Western culture, ironically enough, the same culture he is at war with.
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"Yes, professor," he answered me. "I studied in London, Paris, and New York back in the days when I was a resident of the Earth's continents." }}
* Invoked in [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' ''Have His Carcase''. When [[Lord Peter Wimsey]], Harriet Vane, and the local policeman all hear a story revolving about an Indian rajah who allegedly did not know about banknotes, the policeman objects: what sort of Indian rajah would not know about banknotes? Why, many of them had been educated at Oxford.
* ''[[Doctor Dolittle]]'' series: Crown Prince Bumpoo of the African nation of Jolliginki. Of course, while he likes studying at Oxford (except for [[Everybody Hates Mathematics|math, which he hates]], and the silly European habit of wearing those ghastly shoes all the time) it has mostly succeeded in turning him into an [[
* Tir Ram, the ruler of a fictional Indian state in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] [[Sherlock Holmes]] crossover ''All-Consuming Fire''.
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'''Tir Ram''': I was at Eton and Cambridge, Mr Holmes. I even speak Hindi with an accent now. }}
* In the [[
* ''[[Yes Minister]]'' : A humorous version was used where Hacker sees a news story on the new dictator of an African country and immediately recognizes him as a
▲* ''[[Yes Minister]]'' : A humorous version was used where Hacker sees a news story on the new dictator of an African country and immediately recognizes him as a schoolfriend who also attended the London School of Economics -- prestigious but not quite [[Oxbridge]]. Given that the show is on the cynical side of the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], the (admittedly amusing) casual racism of the British characters is complemented by the obvious corruption of the African character.
** YMMV. He's not presented as being corrupt, just as manipulative as any successful politician. Part of the joke of the episode is that the British characters were expecting to deal with an uneducated dictator and end up being outplayed at their own political game.
* An episode of ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' where Bertie blacks up and attempts [[You No Take Candle|caveman-speak]] to impersonate a visiting African chief is [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]] [[Subverted Trope|saved from cringeworthiness]] when the real chief shows up and turns out to have been educated in England and be better-spoken than Bertie. I say, not that being better spoken than Bertie Wooster is much of a feat, mind you.
* ''[[
* Referenced in ''[[
* Usutu makes a fool of Matt Parkman in ''[[Heroes]]'':
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'''Parkman:''' What is that, some, uh... African mystical mojo thing?
'''Usutu:''' Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology. You don't read much, do you? }}
== [[Radio]] ==
* Spoofed by ''[[The Goon Show]]'' in the episode "The Gold Plate Robbery": Visiting Morocco, Neddie Seagoon meets an Arab nomad who went to college in Cambridge and speaks English like a native
==
▲* Spoofed by ''[[The Goon Show]]'' in the episode "The Gold Plate Robbery": Visiting Morocco, Neddie Seagoon meets an Arab nomad who went to college in Cambridge and speaks English like a native -- with a broad Cockney accent.
* In one episode of ''[[The Wild Thornberries]]'', the Thornberries encounter a tribe of natives who were planning on cooking and eating a runaway Darwin. When Nigel tried to apologize and explain that Darwin was their pet, the chieftain revealed that he knew how to speak English thanks to language tapes. The chief then picks up a call from his friends on his cellphone and tells them that they won't be eating Darwin, so they'll just drive into town for steak.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The leaders of the Negritude movement in France's colonies, the London-educated barrister Gandhi, the Egyptian Islamic fundamentalist and U. of Northern Colorado alum Sayyid Qutb, sometime Prime Minister of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh, Sun Yat-Sen, founder of both Modern Chinas, and many, many more. More or less every revolution against colonial powers in the last three centuries was started by a small group of highly Western-educated native countrymen. The man that takes the cake may be Jawaharlal Nehru, big-shot in the British Indian National Congress and the first Prime Minister of the Indian Republic; his upbringing and outlook was so (nigh-painfully) British he described himself as "the last Englishman to rule India."
* Many of the people responsible for the worst human rights violations in 1970s-1980s Latin America were military or security personnel trained at the School of the Americas (now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in an attempt at re-branding), run by the US government.
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** One of his officers, Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, spent several years as part of a Japanese mission studying naval tactics in the United Kingdom and the United States between the world wars. Not at all surprising when one recalls that the Anglo-Japanese alliance was only dropped in the early '20s and that both Empires had received some measure of [[We Used to Be Friends|US assistance]] in the latter part of their [[World War I|War against Germany.]]
* Jose Marti, (a Cuban revolutionary from the turn of the 20th century) once said (in relation to American, where he got his education), "I know the monster, because I have lived in its lair."
* [[Osama Bin Laden]]. When his compound was searched after his death, among the items found in his compound were American soft drinks (including Coke and Pepsi), Nesquik, and Vaseline, all items that seem contradictory to the anti-capitalism views he claimed to have. There was also quite a lot of pornography (magazines ''and'' videos) something he and most other Islamic extremists claim to despise.
* [[Adolph Hitler]]. In 1991, a daughter of a Russian officer who had served in [[World War II]] found the notorious fascist leader's vinyl record collection in the attic of her father's home. It seemed, he had looted the collection in 1945 and saved it. The collection had titles from quite a few artists and composers that the Nazis had outlawed, including many by Jewish composers.
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